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Re: Pointing a domain to a domain

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Subject: Re: Pointing a domain to a domain
From: "W.D.McKinney" <dee@akwireless.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:03:20 -0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: Kyle Wheeler
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Sent: Tue, 13 Mar
2007 11:06:27 -0800
Subject: Re: Pointing a domain to a domain


> On Tuesday, March 13 at 10:19 AM, quoth W.D.McKinney:
> > Another question if I may. How would one accomplish a domain poiting 
> > to anther domain+directory?
> >
> > IE. 
> > www.domail.tld which points to www.domain.tld/directory
> >
> > I had a request for this the other day.
> 
> This is not something you do with DNS. Think about it: it only makes 
> sense in a web browser. A "directory" doesn't make sense if you're 
> attempting to (for example) ping www.domain.tld.
> 
> So the place where you would make such a change is in the web server. 
> Tell it to issue redirects from one location/URL to another.
> 
> ~Kyle
> -- 
> In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
>                                                         -- Oscar Wilde
> 
> 


Thanks Kyle, and everyone else ....I used a permanent redirect via apache.
-Dee

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